Democrats had, you know, they were in some ways swept away by the narrative of Hillary

Clinton beating Donald Trump and electing the first woman president

after Barack Obama. There's just this pent-up emotion to sort of see the

pivot towards a better, broader, more inclusive America and Democrats haven't

gotten there and then boom, you have

Kamala Harris, right?

I'll offer it after, you know, sort of Democratic hopes and aspirations for a candidate that better

represents the coalition have been so bottled up and all of a sudden

you have a woman of South Asian and Jamaican descent a woman again I'll say that again a

woman who may shatter the glass ceiling and there's just a sense of like validation and catharsis and like pent-up anticipation

and desire just all being uncorked in one week in Chicago. Hello, welcome wise, it's happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

I'm speaking with me, the Friday after Democratic National Convention in the city of Chicago,

which was I think basically a smashing success and a lot of fun to cover. I was in New York with some of my colleagues in 30 Rock, but we had two of our colleagues in the bill, three of them, inside the venue,

Joy Reed, Alex Wagner, and Jacob Soberoff, and I just thought it was so

essential and elemental to our coverage to go to them and I loved when we would go to

them and to be totally honest even

though I was kind of like doing some dad stuff during the week and taking my son

to basketball camp I was having some pretty intense and acute FOMO about not being in

Chicago a city I love.

B, just because I've gone to numerous conventions, they're always fascinating and

there's a certain energy around them.

And so I just want to digest and debrief the convention with someone who's there and who better than my good friend of decades

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